Sotiris Lamprinidis' Official Page

Hi! I am Sotiris, a deep learning polymath with a strong track record in delivering research and industrial applications. I was born in Athens, Greece in 1989 and have been living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2016.

I am interested in deep learning R&D and AI product development as well as open source software, programming, and philosophy.

Contact: sotiris[at]lamprinidis.com

Research & Education

FAIEMA 2023, Sole Author

SIGIR 2023, Joakim Edin et al., implemented critical functions for the study.

Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP

Program Committee, 2021, 2022

WASSA 2021, First Author

37th EGOS Colloquium 2021, Minna Paunova et al.

EMNLP 2018, First Author

Copenhagen Business School

Research assistant under Daniel Hardt

at CBS, Copenhagen. Academic Presenter.

M.Sc. in IT and Cognition

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Master's thesis: Automatic Generation of Rap Lyrics

B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Major in Philosophy of Science

Dissertation: An Audio Classifier (in Greek)

Industry

Was in the forefront of developing new and innovative products: bootstrapped Corti Clear, and bootstrapped Corti Code. Contributed to Automated Medical Coding on MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV: A Critical Review and Replicability Study.

Spearheaded the technical design and implementation of Develop Diverse's main product (DD-scan) (I also came up with the name 😀). Acted as the company's responsible for all technical matters and strived to secure funding.

YouCanDoIt: Voice-Enabled AEDs

Received 269,000 NOK from Laerdal Foundation for developing a prototype. Project Report

Nordic Health Hackathon 2019

Proposed a web application for tracking sun exposure and estimating vitamin-D levels. 3rd prize winners. Photo, Photo

EMS2018 Copenhagen HeartHack Hackathon

Proposed a solution for voice-enabled AEDs. 2nd prize winners

Open Source Contributions

GPU Programming on macOS. Implemented log1p function on the GPU (PR)

Python-native (cython) BLAS for SpaCy. Discovered bug in build system (Issue)

Added AdamW implemtation for the C++ front-end (PR)

Found a possible bug with unicode characters (Issue)

User Authentication Plugin for flask. Fixed deprecated code (PR)

Fixed API inconsistency for a callback module (PR)

Python folding plugin for vim. Fixed folding for multi-line raw strings (PR)

Interests

Music

• Favorite Composer: definitely J.S. Bach

  • Also: Franz Schubert

• Rebetiko music geek. I also play the Bouzouki, Guitar, and a bit of Clarinet.

• Electronic Music

  • Released an EP back in 2011 Turtle Melodies - Almost Mono

  • Some scattered tracks on soundcloud

Computing

• Favorite Linux Distribution: Gentoo

• Favorite Scheme Implementation: Chez

• NetBSD & pkgsrc

• SGI IRIX (I own an Indigo2)

• Favorite Computer Scientists

  • Joe Armstrong

  • William E. Byrd

Philisophy

• Favorite book: The Nature of Explanation by Kenneth Craik

• Later Wittgenstein

• Douglas Hofstadter: mixed feelings

Literature

• Bestest poet: C.P.Cavafy

  • Also W.H. Auden

• Prose

  • Franz Kafka

  • Mark Twain

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

Contact

Contact me at sotiris[at]lamprinidis.com